Garment-fastener.



v H. I. ELSON. GARMENT FASTENER.

APPLIcATIoN rum) 60mm, 1908.

Patentea Feb. 15,- 1910".

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HERMAN I. ELSON, OF JEFFERSONVILLE, INDIANA.

GARIVIENT-FASTENER.

To all who-m 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, I-IERMANV citizen of the United States, residing at J effersonville, in the county of Clark and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention comprehends certain new and useful improvements in garment fastenings, and the invention has for its object a simple and efiicient construction of garment hook and eye which may be easily attached to a garment without the necessity of stitching the members of the fastening thereto.

IVith this and other will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in certain constructions, arrangements, and combinations of the parts that I shall hereinafter fully describe and claim.

For a full understanding of the invention, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is an edge view of my improved garment fastening, showing the members thereof associated; Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of the eye; Fig. 3 is a similar view of the hook; Fig. 4 is a top plan 'view of the hook; Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5-5 of Fig. l; Fig. 6 is an enlarged sectional view of the eye, the section being taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 2; and, Fig. 7 is a similar view of the hook, the section being taken on the line 7-7 of Fig. 3.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawings by the same reference characters.

The hook l of my improved garment fastening is constructed preferably of a single piece of spring metal, substantially of S- shape, the intermediate portion 2 having a plurality of lugs 3 punched therefrom, and designed to be engaged by the penetrating 'prongs 4 that are formed by slitting one I. ELsoN,

objects in view, as

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 30, 1908.

Patented Feb. 15, 1910. Serial No. 460,331.

end of the device. The other end of the piece of metal, or other material constitutes the hook proper or bill 5. The eye 6 is also preferably constructed of a single piece of metal or the like, the ends being bent inwardly toward each other, and one end having a series of lugs 7 punched therefrom, while the opposite end is formed with a plurality of prongs 8 designed to engage the lugs. The main portion of this eye is crimped transversely as indicated at 9, and both walls of the crimp are formed with openings 10 through which the bill 5 of the hook is designed to pass.

In securing the parts to a garment, it is only necessary to unhook the springs from the lugs and to penetrate the garment after which the Springs are again engaged with the lugs to secure the fastenng member in place, it being noted that this operation may be very easily performed, and that no stitching is necessary, and that the hook and eye may be very easily detached lwhenever desired.

Havino' thus described the invention, what is claime as new is:

As a new article of manufacture, a garment fastener constructed of a single strip of metal bent intermediate of its ends to form a transversely extending crimp, said crimp having openings through both its walls, one end of the strip being recurved and slitted to form a series of tongues, each tongue bei'ng transversely curved inward toward the adjacent face of the strip, the other end of the strip being slitted to form a plurality of penetrating prongs, the free ends of which are pointed and adapted to be received within the laterally curved ends of the opposed prongs.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HERMAN I. ELSON. 

